[INFP] INFPs - have any of you never considered suicide as a viable option?

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I never considered myself mentally ill but I've been hospitalized more then a few times for things like this between 15 and 18. It's true theres a tendency to keep it all in, but for me instead of acting on it through an actual, my whole value system would invert itself (stuff I hated became stuff I loved, embracing negativity, ect) which is an ugly thing to see. One thing that dissuaded me when I was a kid was the prospect of an afterlife, even though I logically didnt believe in it. Nothing scared me more then killing myself only to have to keep living, which sounds weird.

I've contemplated it and imagined it in the past, but I know that I'd never be able to actually do it.

Yeah, this.

When I'm depressed enough, I fantasize about death as a way to escape these awful feelings- of loneliness, shame, or whatever I'm feeling at the time. The feelings can be so intense that it feels like you could never recover. But somewhere in the back of my mind, in the subconscious even, I know that I will, so I would never consider doing it in reality.

What is this suicide game you're talking about exactly? Using the threat of suicide as a means of getting attention? That doesn't sound very INFP to me. I'd think INFPs would be the type least likely to use suicide attempts as a cry for help.

True. I would never, EVER do that type of thing.

Nor do I think I would ever commit suicide. I've never woke up in the morning and thought about killing myself that day.

But if I did, I promise you that I wouldn't go crying to anyone about it. I'd either do it or keep my mouth shut.

From dictionary.com...
Viable:
1. capable of living.
2. Physiology.a. physically fitted to live.
b. (of a fetus) having reached such a stage of development as to be capable of living, under normal conditions, outside the uterus.
3. Botany. able to live and grow.

I see suicide as a nonviable option (tehe), though perhaps useful for some obnoxious INFPs

It's comforting to me to know I'm always having option. To know that I can just go the other way if thing's becoming too much for me to go on. Maybe I'm a loser for thinking like this but I just can't help it.